Not just the Beta (Oriana and Slade) novel Chapter 119

Maddie

She saw the sss from Alpha Austin right before they’d been headed out to the café. It was titled ‘wolves investigating your human pheromones scent masking oil’ she’d sighed when she’d read it. Showed it to Ana, who had also frowned as well.

They’d sent Zara and Londyn to go and open up the café and Ana sighed herself, as she read the sss:

‘Maddie,

I have a request for access to you, about your wolfen scent masking product with human pheromones. From one Alpha Slade Southerland. He’s currently on Moosehead Lake. One of you, attacked his Delta! Who thought she was human in need of assistance, but hit his delta with wolfen strength. Seems concerned about coming across a she-wolf like that. Just giving you and your sisters a heads-up, be careful out there, ticking off Alphas is a no-no. You have, I dare say, piqued his interest.

Alpha Austin’

She sighed along with Ana, turned and looked right at her “It’s official then.”

“That it is.” Ana nodded.

Though they’d been 95% positive it was him anyway due to Yuri being Slade’s Delta, then having a blonde Alpha stroll into town, and now he was looking for Ana, they knew with certainty, he had contacted the Alpha Council about it. Though Ana had been uncertain due to that Beta’s name being Vance.

She’d described Hayden to Maddie in detail just in case they’d changed his name, so Ana wouldn’t figure out if they were hunting her. Looked nothing like him. Maddie sent an sss back;

‘Hi Austin,

Thank you for the heads-up, please do not give my details to that Alpha. I’m not interested in him having the formula.

Maddie’

She knew Austin wouldn’t give that out unless she agreed. He was a good man, and they all still got along. Only now, Austin, Sloan and their triples popped in to the house for dinner when in town, instead of just coffee at the café.

She now had full access to the wolfen world intranet via his pack without being tracked by Julious, his tech. Though it had been Sloan that had convinced him to just leave them out here on their own, but they now had a little extra protection from him if they needed it.

Sloan thought they were doing just fine, and didn’t need wolfen interference. The four of them had all agreed with her. Austin checked in regularly via sss, every three or four months and always dropped in, in person if he was passing through. They had an agreement that if his emails weren’t responded to within 24 hours, he’d come right here to find out what was going on.

But other than that, they’d been left alone to their own devices, were living as humans and still had no trouble around town. Austin now considered it a good little experiment, to see if wolves could integrate properly into human society. He was happy with how it was going.

“What now, Ana?” Maddie asked her.

“Nothing, I’ll stay home, keep the blinds down all the time.” Had been her response.

“Ocean and her schooling?”

“I’ve been researching that. I can say she’s got the chicken pox. You, Zara and Londyn are safe out there, they have no idea about the three of you, so go on about your business as normal I guess.

“From Austin’s sss, they are going to walk around and look about. Unfortunately, Yuri thought I was human till he recognised me, so now they all know that I scent like a human, and there is a way to do that.”

“So what are you going to do to throw him off track?” Maddie asked curiously. She knew Ana would be working on a plan to do that.

“I don’t know, I guess that depends on how long I can keep Ocean legitimately from school.”

They looked that up, chicken pox. One was to remain home from five to twelve days, so that was good.

She took a screenshot of some chicken pox and cropped it, and Ana called the school and let them know Ocean had them. Played the concerned parent cared and would do the right thing and keep her home until the rash was gone.

Got a thank you from the lady in the office, and she stated she’d notify all attending children’s parents to be on the lookout for it, in their own children. Seeing as they didn’t know where Ocean had picked it up from.

Maddie was going to dummy up a doctor’s certificate to confirm it and Zara would hand it into the school, the next day she was at work. Collect any homework they wanted Ocean to complete.

She watched Ana tell Ocean when she got up and have her ask why? Was told parts of the truth, there was an Alpha and his unit in town, hovering about that Ana had come across one of the man’s unit a week ago, out in the woods, and punched him to get away from him, and they believed they were now hunting for her. That, because they had the same eyes, it was best not to attend school was all.

Maddie had smiled right at Ocean “You can Beta test my new app.”

“Okay.” Ocean had smiled up at her “I like doing that.” And she did. This particular app was targeted to her age group and learning how to mix colours. It was a colouring-in app where they had to mix colours together to get the right colour before they could colour in with it. She did like having a little Beta tester in the house.

Ocean also told her if she didn’t like something; though it was easy enough to know that answer, if it was too hard or too easy, it just didn’t hold her attention and she didn’t play it. She got distracted by other things that 7-year-olds did.

She drew a vile of Ana’s blood and headed off into the woods in her truck, took it as far into the woods as she could get, and then dripped drops of blood or smear it on a tree or a rock, put some of her own blood out there even just to show it wasn’t only Ana out here, she covered a few square miles and headed on up the trail to that old portal, put a drop of blood right on the ground a foot from it. And then just headed on back to her truck and home once more.